30 March 2022
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Revisiting Lilavati for Interdisciplinary & Inclusive Education in STEAM
In the 21st century, when we are stressing on the educational approach called STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Applied Arts and Mathematics) for women, in ancient India, there was already a particular mathematics book written addressing women and promoting their education in mathematics. One of the rich texts written in Sanskrit around 1150 A.D. was ‘Siddhant…